One of my main dishes I make is vegetables with beans, and the beans I use are white kidney beans canned in water and salt. I put them in a strainer and rinse them, then add them to the pot with the vegetables, along with some olive oil, and cook them for maybe 10-15 minutes, but I started to wonder, are these beans considered "soaked"? They are in that water for so long, I thought they would be.

I might try simply eliminating beans all together and seeing what happens.

EDIT: I was wondering about all beans canned in water not just these beans, we also use Pinto beans every week.

I am pretty sure that the point of soaking beans is 1. to pre-hydrate them uncooked so they can be cooked faster. 2 to soak uncooked long enough to start germinating them altering the chemistry and nutrition components. 3 I would presoak beans in a vinegar solution (like a capful per gallon of water, this would take away some of the ass gas producing components.

So I think with canned beans you cannot be sure how they prepared the beans, they may be just cooked and not soaked